I sometime drink coca leaves in tea. It makes me a bit more focused but that’s it, I don’t like it that much.
Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky'
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 year ago
Anecdotally, cocaine seems to make its users into the worst versions of themselves. Alcohol can have negative effects (the “mean drunk”, drinking as disinhibition for impulsive antisocial behaviour, etc.) though the average drinker is generally not regarded as negatively as the average cokehead. I wonder how much of this is due to the substances’ intrinsic properties and how much due to cultural expectations.
onlyoneIbought@r.nf 1 year ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I suspect a large part has to do with a selection bias. The people most likely to turn into a bad cokehead are also the people with the most access to it. Most people will never come into contact with cocaine, but they will come into contact with alcohol and likely consume it. The average person is more likely to become an alcoholic, while only certain segments are likely to even have the potential to become a coke addict and I’d bet on those segments being more likely to be harmful.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah. The stereotype of the cokehead is the asshole trader who works at Goldman Sachs. Rookie numbers and all that…
SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Cocaine either makes me crazy. Aka I think it was cut with something. Or does absolutely nothing to me. Aka this is the pure stuff. The better the cocaine, according to my friends reviews versus mine, the less I feel any “effects”. So that was the start of internal alarm bells about ADHD 😂(very much so diagnosed and medicated now lol). Just better focus but a bit moreso than my current meds, as a rough guess it’s been over 10 years.
But I never saw them become the worst versions of themeslves.
Unless. They drank at the same time as consuming.